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the even the lower the like, wow, where's the i know you'd be or daddy got rooms that you that abide by the oh no, we don't do a road street champion, miles was the welcome back. welcome back to what i got. no home me, that's your choice. and i'm gonna get a body here. that is true. so major mental the night for me to father because everyone else studies a mean a hello ricky. hello,

greg. hello, aaron o. connected to concrete, cowboy in one way or another. that's what that connection is. ricky, introduce yourself to an international audience. give to abby. yes, i'm ricky star, writer, and director of country cowboy. i go ahead get to see introduce yourself. what's your connection? my name is greg mary. i am the author of the young adult novel, general cowboy, on which the dawn was based. nice to have. i run a welcome to the stream. i think this might be a 1st aaron. tell everybody seeing you all what you do and you connection to the movie. i am aaron brown. i am the director of philadelphia harangue academy and also one of the original fletcher sheet writers. so nice to have you. that is our whole conversation, but this movie has started about that cowboys and black towel goes, i feel is an issue that if you know, you know, but if you don't,

and you want to talk to aaron and greg, i'm re key the best thing to do is jump into youtube comment section, and youtube can be part of the day shift. so i would, if you know, you know, if you don't how do you stop that conversation or stand conversation about black cowboys and blackout girls is something that has been not mainstreamed. so i guess you have to see it and the conversation begins there. so i'm just looking at here, you really have to see it to leave it. and i think a lot of people have that same reaction. you know, even little kids. i see in those neighborhoods, when i see a towel i can't go right and buy a horse. they just have this look on the face like, you know, and, you know, the common thing i heard even people i know who lived in philadelphia the whole lives. maybe even 2 miles away from this neighborhood,

never knew about this whole world because there's a certain perception about strawberry mansion. yeah, it's not this, this story bathroom is an area in philly, and that's where this film takes place. but right before i move on to ricky, who tells the story in a movie, you also told the story and the young adult booklet was incredibly popular. and this picture, this is a picture that aspired to me to show it, to everybody new. tell everybody what east or what, but you so it's, yeah, i mean i, i came across this photo as a life magazine and, and you know, one of the 1st images inside was a young black boy standing on top of a horse. and clearly what was the inner city and, you know, you have that same reaction that those kids have which is like, what is this, you know? and you start flipping through these photos. you see, you know,

black hat boys in philadelphia, what is going on in to me. that's where a story lives, because, you know why they're black cowboys and voices in north silly. you know that, why is the story, i mean, things taught just happened i, accident. there's a reason and i wanted to know what it was, and so i just started digging in at the time, you know, put it into google, and like nothing came up, nobody had written about it. there were no articles, no documentary, nothing, no books. and so to me, that is something and you know, as i started to slowly find out, make my way into that world. but this is something people need to know about. because not only was surprising, but i thought it was, you know, beautiful and her ro x in you know, these are voices that needed to be heard. ricky, go ahead. tell us about, you know, joining your discovery of how boys and black,

how those. i don't mind very similar. i mean there's actually a scene in the movie, it's in the trailer as well that i feel like really articulate my own experience is what greg is talking about. where there's this young little boy and his mom on a bus and they see the riders coming by. and i really wanted it to paint even particularly where it is in the movie, the beauty, but also this locksmith that they're facing. like, what if this community wasn't here and what if there weren't these little boys that could see these cowboys riding? but for me is i had a very similar experience where my 1st introduction to the cowboys in north philly was a gentleman riding in a checked out by the outside. my office. yeah. which is less than a mile from fletcher street. and yeah, it had speakers and these huge tires of randers fascinating, let alone that a horse was blowing it. yeah. and you're the one that told me about fletcher 3 and then a google search. yeah. like uh, what grace that i didn't find much, but i did find at that time greg book which correct me if i'm wrong,

greg. i think it was published in 2011 because i remember and 2012 when i read the book. yeah. and i aramark came back man one day, that would be amazing movie when i'm ready to make movies. and so, yeah, it wasn't then until 2017 actually when i met eric miller was the 1st cowboy i met in court, actually my company, my production company, hires adults returning home from incarceration. eric had been home a week and told the judge that he had already purchased a horse, which i found quite fascinating on here that every day in court. and aaron is, was one of eric's best friends. and i met her shortly after, and we talked about, you know, what can we do even then in 2017, knowing the perils that fletcher street were facing. you know, what can we do to create a permanent um, for these cowboys and cowgirls all over philadelphia who have been displaced. i know that when we showed that that little boy with a horse and an error,

and i could see yes, that's vocal admiration when you saw that picture, that, that nice magazine page i want to play. you take that picture now. sorry, didn't get that picture. see that is a, a young guy named red. he was one of my 1st original kids. he was, he followed me around the stable and he took care of my horses. he and i watched him grow up. he's 2425 now, and i called him my son, and especially oh hi. so this i want to play to an and we sort of tap dancing around the edges. they just but why do we not know? why do you have to work so hard to find out about a piece of american history? don't say contemporary american life that we should know about a taste, jennifer, who's has thoughts? listen, i'm really enjoy the concrete cowboys. i grew up in houston, texas of black cowboys and romeo of, and seen black folks, right?

courses on city streets that also hold cars is nothing new to me. but this was my 1st introduction to that rich tradition in philadelphia is black community. what i've been sitting with since i saw assume yesterday is some cruelty that has to be involved to take what little bit of that tradition is left there in philadelphia. and i just think it's another example of how our place and that rich history continues to be whitewash. who i was a aaron and greg as well. everyone's going to jump in on this when i, when you start, like the new finish. once upon a time, i mean, she's absolutely right there where maybe about 3540 backyard stables where the urban black have. we kept their horses and we never owned these facilities and they are, you know, with redevelopment gentrification. we have no control but to migrate to different

stables, and it's a piece of our history being washed away. every time happens and i've experienced it myself on fletcher street. and you know, these are a lot of these flatter street horsemen. riders are family, you know, want to stable, closes down, we open up the doors and they've all migrated there. and these voices are horsemen . they are, wouldn't make up our community, they aren't, you know, there's, there's nothing to bring them together like a, a club or anything there were just, you know, holding on in. we need something that's really ours to keep. you know, that can be taken away from us because it is important history and philadelphia we would ride to different stables just to read up and that's not happening anymore. records, there's barely any less. yeah, i mean,

i think for people of color is just like a history of hidden figures that have never been recognized across the board. and what i tell, you know, i work with the young people and what i tell them, you can't blame people for not knowing what they don't know, because they're only given a certain narrative. so it's up to us to you, to change that narrative, to use your voice, to tell your own stories, to get your, those voices out there and represented. so, you know, it's just like there's so many cultures like this one, all these people who live within a couple of my house and never know about it. and the reason is like, you know, there's a perception on the news. this is the most dangerous neighborhood in north philly. you're not going to go there, you can avoid it, and structurally it's built. so you never have to interact with it, even if you live. you know, within a couple of miles of it,

it's easy to avoid. and so therefore, you know, there's no ways to interact with this culture unless you find out about it. unless those stories start to get told and start to penetrate deeper. and people want to actually go there because it's like, oh, what is this? you know how it was? check that out. i feel ricky off because of a people going to be hanging out. they just kind of visit way. it is how the was and how yeah, i feel like to read almost like a, a movie place where everyone goes just to check out the location. so i was just going to be telling people away i, i loved physically on my laptop, concrete, cowboy hit number one on netflix, on a. so just this past weekend. number one, sam ricky, what did you set out to do in the telling of this field? what many people are watching the show right now is rainy is what she missed on youtube. she says, i have never heard of black cowboys and cowgirls that going to be a lot of people who you're going to be blowing then millions right now,

including american trends. right. so what did you set out to, you know, i mean this is i to be honest. what we do is what we have accomplished, which was, you know, when i met eric, one of the things he told me was that when he was growing up, he loved westerns and he loved it each pound. but there were no black cowboys represented in those stories. and so what he wanted to be able to leave for the youth that you know, he was teaching and his own kids was to have a movie that showed black cowboys. and to give kids something to look for. and so to be able to see that representation happened and the film is a huge source of joy for me. you know, also he was well aware 4 years ago that fletcher street was facing general education issues. i mean, even to hear you say that, like currently right now the crowd of beautiful field for all the horses grades and the film is completely fenced off and dug out. the city is currently building affordable housing units. and so, you know,

something that we've done with aaron is to actually originally we established a nonprofit with eric called the philadelphia urban writing academy at eric. unfortunately, was killed a week before we went into prep on the film while tragically and you know, his legacy of now living on through and, and through all the cowboys and cowgirls in that films to help find a home for, you know, all the cowboys and cowgirls across philadelphia that no longer have to be displaced permanently, like it's important that they own the land. they own the barn because every time the city getting them something, it's taken away. it's only a matter of time. and so, you know, i'm proud of them for seeing this through with us has been, you know, a 4 year journey at this point. it's going to continue. and thankfully, we're on this beautiful side of it. i was thrilled to wake up on sunday morning to see that it was number one on the job. what do you understand? what a really great routine, what did you face the when you, when you saw? yes, i did it as i can do the show her what i was actually,

i mean everyone was texting me. i didn't even have to take that rule. i don't probably. oh my god, the new oh. all right, so, so the agent exploded uh its on netflix right now, so you can watch on netflix a little bit of the story line. so it's a fictional story. its based on the regs book bought. yeah. it is based on a real life of and cowboys, not just ones in philadelphia, but ones in brooklyn war around the united states where people don't realize that this still that so that's a question. he knows really uh yeah, yeah. go ahead with that. we're ricky. no, why don't you guys just yeah, i'm not really slow to see. like i was just trying to like, respond to people on instagram and there's the cowboy and burbank black, cowboy of the community of black houses. and they actually all gathered at their barn to watch the film on opening night. and he was sending me pictures and it's cool to be, you know, other uh cowboys and cowgirls around fairly. but yeah,

these communities do exist across the country and do face the same perils that fletcher street is a thing. and so, so yeah, yeah. you know, when they, when they came out. yeah, you know, and i traveled around the country, what i thought was this little subculture that exist really, you know, black riders came out to see me everywhere from new york to l. a. to seattle champ, uh, chicago st. louis, like every corner of the united states, they would come out to see me on the horses. no, teenagers, goats. and it was a really beautiful thing. it's like, okay, this is like a real thing. yeah. menu, start to find out about, you know, this incredibly rich history of like have boys in the old west to, you know, and where you know, one and 4 tab boys are black and, and batteries. they've been the basis for the lone ranger and all the stories, and it's pretty remarkable. we were given a lot of people and

a slave. and greg aaron and rickie at the end of the show because they going to be going okay. for that cowboys and black towel goes. this is kate as she is a school teacher greg. and she has a question precisely for you. have a listen and then also one of the back of his video comment. so little bit of a back story. my students and i are the past few years, have read ghetto, cowboy and book clubs, and my students are actually scheduled to have an office visit with mr. neary last year by due to unforeseen circumstances he was unable to attend. so this exciting, i still get to post one of their questions. so i'm assuming i sense would like to know what was the hardest part about changing your book into a fam, larger size office, a very close to their work. and now when you have a found that you're going to make you have other people who give their input. so what was the most challenging part during that whole process? well, luckily for ricky, i started off. is it so make your so i knew the difference between a book and

a movie and that anyone who literally translates book is not gonna end up with a good movie. probably. so to me, the most important thing is to if you say yes to, to make sure that you let them do their job and try not to bug them too much. and so for me was mostly like he is production company was in the area. he knew the community. yeah. understood the issues, you know, the most important thing that, you know, he wanted to us the, represent this community and it's people and the issues they deal with. yeah. you know, you have an interest in a sense of trust and all these things that i was interested in. and so to me like i could see you have the same instincts and the same drive and reason to tell this story. so, you know, once i heard back in the slide, yes, go ahead. you know, of course i will say some things, but you know,

i didn't ever expect him to actually do any of those suggestions as long as i just add ons. okay. so the, this is obvious when we, when, when the cost or free, if you, if you that your coaching, your background is going to be to some graphics, going to be different, some errands, say newly, also on youtube. people should be telling their own history, then have to wait for someone to tell the world your history. the ways that you what rick a was really interesting, the way that you got into the community. there was a phrase in the states about is, is based class and going to be invited to the cookouts. you went to manage the ad i see on the account card is good for the rest of the basically if it's, if i'm going to explain for the rest of what it's like, you will have a family gabrielle, would you invite someone from outside of your family outside of your culture to

come to that family gathering. that is the sole sad. how did you get your lifetime invitation to the cook out with you? what did you do? it really was, you know, as eric it was aaron. it was mailed, replace parents and the phone, and then were say, it was all these folks about one by one, you know, to give air credit. you know, he was the 1st one that said if you're going to come around, you gotta stay around, you know, and so i remember the 1st time i went down to fletcher street, he made me get up on a horse and said, that's the 1st theatre he got approved, they stay up on a r c which that was my 1st time on a horse ever him wash horse arts car. terrifying by the way, but i definitely did it. and then he, you know, you'd invite me to the barbecue. we would just hang out, but i was well aware of what it meant to be entrusted to be telling that story and why, you know, when i approached greg, i said collectively we love your book. i loved a lot of things about the book. one, i love the characters the way that there was an in for the story,

but i think it was going to be most helpful for the community that it was a fictionalized tail. that, that way we can incorporate a fuller body like the legacy of fletcher street and all the cowboys and cowgirls. it was helpful for them to have this framework where we weren't trying to do like a documentary about clint day. and so the process became really beautiful because all these voices became additive and, and the more that they influenced the adaptation, the more i felt like it was going to be true and authentic in my delivery of it. because i said that the eric and mill were my closest collaborators, that you know, i know i can direct, i know it can, right? i know i have the pounds, but i have not lived your stories. so you need to, i need to be a conduit for those. are all those tell the know, so it's from sitting around a barbecue to you know, aaron took me to the auction to, i mean, literally introducing me to anyone and everyone who could sit and when the near to and that part of it was, i was like 2 or 3 years of that was so beautiful. oh,

do you take a lot of luck getting into the on your cell then to yeah, before you're done, but i was by the way. no, it's when did you like what it was like, are you having other people come in and try to tell these stories? um, we're pretty, pretty much used to what you see people come through all of the time and then they get there a little a product or title. there's little short story and you know, they give you a check. they don't really, you know, care. so you know, when i met ricky, i'm like, okay, here we go again. so, but it was it like, you know, getting to know him and, and what they were about and you could tell who they were really genuine with everything they were doing. and they really care to even try to come take the next

that because you these, you know, writers and everything that the community fees, you know, we don't have a voice. so him telling our story and putting us out there means the world to us. um cuz it isn't and forgotten and culture that's in the process of being wiped away as we speak. so ricky, dan, the whole neighborhood family. they always have a cook out card and always on the left their personal doors to ask you their, their offices, their home. so, or is there an amazing group of guys? right. he's got a time with his match here. mary is watching the show right now. i am guessing is a relative such a great movie, especially right now. so it congrats, ricky, and of course my bro. c a brother. but an ac. aaron, aaron, can you talk about how many kids are involved in writing

a talk about the funding needed? i would, i'm just going to put up this year, raising money for a permanent stable. if you watch the movie, you'll see the cowboys and the categories. they lose the home, but i say we never lose our family like we all find me. but if you look, see, i'm web posted as well on i age, i streams to the page, raising money for a permanent stable so that you can support the real life cowboys and cowgirls of philadelphia. ricky, greg error, and it's been fun writing with you today. thank you so much. you 2 of us. thank you for the questions. the number one hit film on netflix right here on my laptop, concrete, cowboy, thanks for watching everybody. i see you next time the,

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